Fair Enough?

Barack Obama's Rise Has Americans Debating
Whether Affirmative Action Has Run Its Course

By

Jonathan Kaufman

Updated June 14, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET

WARREN, Mich. -- Stan Sheyn, a white student who attends community college in this working-class Detroit suburb, supports Barack Obama for president. But he has no time for what he calls "double standards and propagation of victim mentality."

"The fact that a black man can run for the position of the President of the United States of America only corroborates that there is enough opportunity and equality for great...